15 Hilarious Parenting Comics That Are Almost Too Real.

A dad who is also a cartoonist – Meet Brian Gordon, the maker of popular parenting comic website ‘Fowl Language’. Contrary to what the name suggests, the strip has little or no use of any profane language.

Though his comics are not restricted to everyday parenting struggles, those that do talk about it are the ones which have struck a chord with parents on the web.

Upon being questioned about his source of inspiration for creating the comics, Gordon replied, “My comics are largely autobiographical, I’ve got two kids who are four and seven, and often, what I’m writing happened as recently as that very same day.”

Here’s a compilation of some of the funniest illustrations of Gordon. The first one in the list is titled ‘Welcome to Parenting’, which according to the caricaturist captures the very essence of his vision behind the comic strips; “”Parenting can be such tedious drudgery, but if it wasn’t also so incredibly rewarding there wouldn’t be nearly so many people on the planet.”

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The reason behind everyone just loving Gordon’s gags is probably the fact that they can relate to it. His works provide a scope for parents to laugh about the everyday woes of parenting.

A parent of two kids himself, when Brian was questioned about the worst piece of parenting advice he had ever been given, the cartoonist reminiscences about the time he met a nosy old woman.

“I remember being an absolute sleep-deprived wreck, sitting outside a sandwich shop, wolfing down my lunch quickly beside my one-month-old son, who was briefly resting his lungs between screaming fits.

A rather nosy woman walked up to me and said, all smugly, ‘You should enjoy this time while they’re easy.’ It was the exact worst thing anyone could have said to me in that moment and I just wanted to curl up on the sidewalk and cry.”

The anecdote surely stirs up a memory in each one of us who have ever been supplied with absolutely unwanted counselling on ‘how to do parenting right’. This is where Gordon’s comics come in like a breath of fresh air, which carry no judgement and just let us regale in our failures or successes.

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